The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-07-21
RESOLOOTIN'.
A Grand, Old Fashioned Lii.
eral Kicking Bee.
WHAT'S ADOPTED AS A WHOLE.
Associated Press Everybody but
Liberals-CAtch 1t,

The Liberal Territorial Convention
met at the Federal Courtroom at /
O'Clock, yesterday afternoon. AND Judge
Emerson was chosen temporary chair
man and Judge Mckay secretary.
A committee of five was appointed
who through its chairman, ]. K. Nc
Bride, reported full representation of
delegates. Several precincts had
elected delegates who were admitted to
seats on the floor; but the number oil
votes was not increased.
The temporary officers were made
permanent.
A committee of nine. on resolutions,
was. appointed, composed of Messrs'
Rosborough, Mcbride and III. Murray
of Salt Lake; and Messrs. Cohen
of Park City, NormoyIe, of Tooele'
WitOeck, of Juab, Chapman, of Weber,
Sutherland, of Utah, and McGarry, OF
Beaver, and recess of half an hour
was taken to allow them to formulate
the resolutions.
Colonel Sells offered a resolution, to be
referred to the committee with instruc-
tons to report it. 1t was as follows:
RESOLVED, That it is the sense of this Con-
vention that no Liberal should vote either
for or against the so-called State COnstiIu-
ton, the same be ng framed and submitted
to the popular vote without authority, and
on the sole motion of the People party the
Mormon chu CHI, aud is, in fact, false issue,
for SIMS er purpos s, antagOnisnc to the best
intel es,s of the Territory.
E. A. McDaniels introduced another
which was similarly treated. 1t read:
RESOLVED, That R n Baskin and C W.
Bennett be and are hereby elected as repre-
senCativ of the loyal citizens at w shing-
ton during the session of the Fiftieth Con-
gress.
At this point Mr.. Mckay discovered
that the duties of secretary We're crowd
| ing him and General Agramonte was
CHOSEN assistant secretary.
The com mittee on resolutions re
| turned in due time, and on the conven
ton being called to order, Judge Ros-
borough read the following
RESOLUTIONS:
Resolved, First-That, so long as the tenn
poral power of the Mormon Church shall re
| main in issue, and as Oug as that church
as political organization, continues 10 ar
ray itself against the laws of the land, a
| sense of self-preserYatiOn as well as true
: allegiance to the Republic and its free insti-
| tutiuns, calls on all true American citizens
in the Territory to stand and act together
against great over .hadOWing evil as they
! do now, without differences as TO national
polit cs; aud we, therefore, affirm it to be the
duty and purpose of all such, to support the
Liberal organization, as broad; common
| ground, adapted to the necessities OF the
! situation, from VIII CHI we can best appeal 80
| both national parties in Congress and the
| sense of the nation at large.
| Scc0nd-That IN; dominant majority In
| Utah, having persistently disregarded and
opposed the laws of the laad, by prostituIing
the powers of Territorial government and
| otherwise, cannot safely De trusted with the
powers of State government.
Third-That the proposed State COnstitu
ton is q device of the Mormon Church to
enable its priesthood to perpetuate by State
CONTROL their harsh tenn oral power and cor
rupt social system Whi CHI has bHghted Utah
for the last thirty five years.
Fourth-lhat, in our opinion, based on 6
thorough acquaintance with the politica
methods of the Mormon Church the prOvi
sions of the Constitution, connected anC
proposed by its agents, prohibiting certain
crimes h retofore lnculcated as pa t of it!
creed, enjoined by divine revelation, are
QGcSlLIul duO IslSep anu are mere pillSEluE
in double sense, contrived to mis- ea1 /
generous and forgiving nation, and to as
sumo continued Lease of power being
heretofore and still arrayed as a uni
against the execution of ex sting natiOna
laws TO the same purport (Which has been
the lie ground for loud complaints of per
secution,) no one could expect them to exc
cute theS provisions against themselves
because all experience proves t1at coustitu
tons and laws which are not founded, 1
| 10 0iri.o nd hx-f HI
administer them, can never have any force
or vitality
Fi,th-That to commit to Mormon hands
the power to govern Utah as State, will
past experience OF he reasonable and IN
American chara' ter OF that organization
would be to abandon all faithful American
citizens who reside here. WITH all their ma
terial interests, to the oppre sion ana mis-
rule OF power that never been faithful
to any patriotic duty, or obedient to any Law
which prohibits its crimes.
Sixth-That the perversion of delegated
political power and the pernic GUS teach
ings of the poIitico religious organization il
Utah, for generation, have led the domi
nant majority astrav from all true concep
tions OF free government and unified tnen
for the duties aud responsibilities of self
government
Seventh That until convalescence shall
come to the sick body, pol,lic and social
which has been gathered and organized pa
litieally in Utah, in blasphemous travesty g
1.-THE Kingdom of God,' and until time sns.
have proven that the deep damnati, N" o
us infection has been eradicated, considers
tons for the public peace and nationa
honor anke demand that Utah should b.
kept in quarantine.
EIghth-Tnat the present movement 70
statehood for Utaa, like its several prede
cestors, having been init ated by the MOI
mon Church, and carried forward solely b,
ils members and agents, for It's sinister pur
poses, and wit outsu hority or form of law,
is the sense of this convention that n .Ameri
can citizen in Utah who is not a member o
the Mormon organization should vote at tn,
J, ensuing election, either for or against tn
proposed constitution. or in any name
recognize the movement, except by a.
earnest appea. to Congress and the natiol
to save us from the great cal nifty thu
. threatened. At the same time, we earnest
= urge all Liberals also in the Territory t
support their respective legislative an
county tickets.
Ninth-That the Utah Commission owe
its existence to the fact recognized by re
D peated acts of Congress that the dominen
{ majority of Utah are unfit to be invesiet
? with the unusual powers of Territoria
4 government; that the hasty action of
= majority of that Commission in attempting
to lend their official sanction to the move
- I of q &c